by soniachopra | Oct 30, 2020 | Endodontic Case Study
What do you do when a tooth is cracked? Cracked teeth are not only hard to diagnose but can also really put a wrinkle in your treatment plan. The uncertainty is hard to deal with for both the doctor and the patient. As providers, we always want to give our patients...
by soniachopra | Aug 27, 2020 | Endodontic Case Study
What do you do when you see severe calcification? Sometimes, even I don’t know if a tooth is actually going to heal, particularly when I can’t follow the two cardinal rules of endodontics. In my opinion, this special case broke the law, but it does serve to prove...
by soniachopra | May 22, 2020 | Endodontic Case Study, Endodontics
Every now and then you get a case that makes your heart sink into your stomach. You know that feeling that I am talking about. All is going well, but then you see something in the radiograph you wish you could erase. (Talk about close to the nerve! You could say this...
by soniachopra | Mar 20, 2020 | Endodontic Case Study
Is bone slow to heal? You bet. This is always something I remind my patients and my referring dentists of: bone is slow to heal and regenerate after root canal therapy. So you must be patient when assessing healing of your root canals. My typical recall protocol is to...
by soniachopra | Feb 28, 2020 | Endodontic Case Study
I recently had a patient come to me because she was concerned about a separated file that had broken in her tooth years ago, and she was having pain in that quadrant. After a thorough evaluation, I was able to diagnose the culprit as Tooth #20 with Symptomatic...
by soniachopra | Feb 21, 2020 | Endodontic Case Study, Endodontics
Silver points can sometimes be an endodontist’s worst nightmare. There is a reason why we don’t use them anymore. In fact, the AAE recommends against the continued use of silver points, since it has been shown to be clinically problematic. Silver points can corrode...
